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Some Recent
Papers & Presentations |
Browsing on Small Screens: Recasting Web-Page Segmentation into an Efficient
Machine Learning Framework Social- and Interactive-Television Applications Based on Real-Time
Ambient-Audio Identification A Large Scale Study
of Wireless Search Behavior: Google Mobile Search Mobile Search: A First Glimpse Into the State of
Mobile Search Large Scale
Image-Based Adult Content Filtering The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval |
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Ph.D. Dissertation |
Baluja, S. (1996) Expectation-Based Selective Attention, Ph.D.
Thesis, |
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Journals |
Baluja, S. (2002) “Using a priori Knowledge to Create Probabilistic Models for Optimization”, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp 193-220. IJAR Baluja, S. Mittal, V., Sukthankar, R. (2000) “Applying machine learning for high-performance named-entity extraction”. Computational Intelligence, 16/4 November 2000. 586-595. Baluja, S. (2000) “Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Probabilistic Modeling of Face Orientation”, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 8 (2000) 1097-1107 . Contributing author to Boyan, Buntine, Jagota (ed.) (2000) “Statistical Machine Learning for Large-Scale Optimization” in Neural Computing Surveys 3, 2000. Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A. (1998) “Dynamic Relevance: Vision Based Focus of Attention using Artificial Neural Networks,” Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 97 (1-2) pp. 381-395. Rowley, H., Baluja, S. & Kanade, T. (1998) “Neural Network-Based Face Detection,” IEEE-Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 20, No. 1, January, 1998. IEEE-PAMI Version Sukthankar, R., Baluja, S., & Hancock, J. (1998) “Multiple Adaptive Agents for Tactical Driving,” International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Volume 9, Issue 1, July, 1998. Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A. (1997) “Expectation-Based Selective Attention for the Visual Monitoring and Control of a Robot Vehicle,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Vol. 22 pp. 329-344. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal Version Baluja, S. & Simon, D. (1997) “Evolution-Based Methods for Selecting Point Data for Object Localization: Applications to Computer-Assisted Surgery,” International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Vol. 8, pp. 1-13. CMU-CS-96-183 Baluja, S. & Maxion, R. (1996) “Artificial Neural Network Based Approaches to Detection and Classification of Plasma-Etch Anomalies,” The Journal of Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, No. 1-2, 57-82, 1997. JIS-97 Baluja, S. (1996) “Evolution of an Artificial Neural Network Based Autonomous Land Vehicle Controller,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 26 No. 3, 450-463, June 1996. Baluja, S., Pomerleau, D.A. & Jochem T. (1994) “Towards Automated Artificial Evolution
for Computer Generated Images,” Connection Science, Volume 6, 2 &
3. 1994. Also appears in Musical Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception
and Performance (eds.) |
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Book Chapters |
Baluja, S., Pomerleau, D.A. & Jochem T. (1999) “Towards Automated Artificial Evolution
for Computer Generated Images,” in Baluja, S., Sukthankar, R., Hancock,
J. (1996) “Prototyping Intelligent Vehicle Modules Using Evolutionary
Algorithms,” in Dasgupta, D. & Michalewicz, Z. (eds.) Evolutionary Algorithms in
Engineering Applications. Springer Verlag, Baluja, S. (1995) “Evolving Artificial Neural Networks: Learning
to Steer a Land Vehicle,” The Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms, Vol II. Chambers, L. (Ed). CRC Press. Baluja, S. (1995) “Structure and Performance of Fine Grain
Parallelism in Genetic Search,” The Practical Handbook of Genetic
Algorithms, Vol. II. Chambers, L. (Ed). CRC Press. Jochem, T. & Baluja, S. (1994) “Massively
Parallel, Adaptive, Color Image Processing for Autonomous Road Following,” Massively
Parallel Artificial Intelligence. Hiroaki Kitano & James Hendler (Eds.), AAAI Press. |
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Conference |
S. Baluja, Browsing on Small
Screens: Recasting Web-Page Segmentation into an Efficient Machine Learning
Framework. To appear in the Proceedings of the WWW-2006. WWW-2006
M. Kamvar, S. Baluja, A Large
Scale Study of Wireless Search Behavior:
Google Mobile Search, to appear in CHI-2006.
CHI-2006 H. Rowley, Y. Jing, S. Baluja, & H.Rowley (2005) Boosting Sex Identification
Performance. AAAI-IAAI 2005. IAAI 2005 (pdf) S. Baluja & H. Rowley (2005) Large Scale
Performance Measurement of Content-Based Automated Image-Orientation
Detection. Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing,
2005. ICIP 2005
(pdf) S. Baluja, M. Sahami, H. Rowley (2004) Efficient Face Orientation Discrimination. Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2004. ICIP-2004 (pdf) M. Sahami, V. Mittal,
T. Sim, R. Sukthankar, M. Mullin, S. Baluja (2000) Memory-based face recognition for visitor identification. Proceedings of IEEE Face and Gesture, 2000. ARENA-99 Baluja, S., Mittal, V. & Sukthankar, R. (1999) “Applying Machine Learning for High Performance Named Entity Extraction,” appeared in The Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING-99). PACLING-99 Baluja, S. (1999) “Making Templates Rotationally Invariant: An Application to Rotated Digit Recognition”, in M. S. Kearns, S. A. Solla, D. A. Cohn, eds Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, MIT Press, 1999. NIPS-98 Baluja, S. (1999) “Probabilistic Modeling for Face Orientation Discrimination: Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Examples” in M. S. Kearns, S. A. Solla, D. A. Cohn, eds., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11, MIT Press, 1999. NIPS-98 Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1998) “Fast Probabilistic Modeling for Combinatorial Optimization,” in Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, 1998. (AAAI-1998). AAAI-98 Baluja, S., (1998) “Using Expectation to Guide Processing: A Study of Three Real-World Applications” in M.I. Jordan, M. J. Kearns, S. A. Solla, eds., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10, MIT Press, 1998. (Plenary Presentation). Neural Information Processing Systems 10 Rowley, H., Baluja, S. & Kanade, T. (1998) “Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection,” in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1998. Also available as CMU-CS-97-201 via anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. Oral Presentation. CMU-CS-97-201 & JPRC-TR-97-001 Baluja, S. (1998) “Finding Regions of Uncertainty in Learned Models: An Application to Face Detection,” in Eibenm Back, Schwefel, Schoenauer (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1498, PPSN – Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1997) “Using Optimal Dependency-Trees for Combinatorial Optimization: Learning the Structure of the Search Space,” in Fisher, D.H. (ed.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 1997 (ICML-97), pp. 30-38. Also available as CMU-CS-97-107 via. Anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. CMU-CS-97-107 ICML'97 Version Sukthankar, R., Baluja, S., & Hancock, J. (1997) “Prototyping Intelligent Vehicle Modules,” The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1997 (ICRA-97). Proceedings are in electronic form. ICRA97 Baluja, S. (1997) “Genetic Algorithms and Explicit Search
Statistics,” in Mozer, M.C., Rowley, H., Baluja, S., Kanade, T. (1996) “Neural Network Based Face Detection,” in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1996. IEEE Computer Society, CA. 203-208. Oral Presentation. Compressed postscript Baluja, S. (1996) “An Empirical Comparison of Seven Iterative
and Evolutionary Heuristics for Static Function Optimization (Extended
Abstract),” Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
Systems Engineering. Howard. R. Caruana, R., Baluja, S., Mitchell, T. (1996) “Using the Future to ‘Sort-Out’ The Present: Rankprop and Multitask Learning for Medical Risk Evaluation,” in Touretzky, D.S., Mozer, M.C., & Hasselmo, M.E. (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8. MIT Press. pp. 959-965. Pneumonia-NIPS95 Rowley, H., Baluja, S., Kanade, T.
(1996) “Human Face Detection in Visual Scenes,” in Touretzky,
D.S., Mozer, M.C., & Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A.
(1995) “Using the Representation in a Neural Network’s Hidden Layer for
Task-Specific Focus of Attention,” C. Mellish (ed.)
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1995
(IJCAI-95): Baluja, S. & Caruana, R. (1995)
“Removing the Genetics from the Standard Genetic Algorithm,” In Prieditis, A., Russel, S.(eds) The International
Conference on Machine Learning 1995 (ML-95): Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A.
(1995) “Using a Saliency Map for Active Spatial Selective Attention:
Implementation & Initial Results,” Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems (NIPS) 7. G. Tesauro, D.S. Touretzky and T.K. Leen,
(eds.), MIT Press, Baluja, S. & Pomerleau, D.A.
(1994) “Non-Intrusive Gaze Tracking Using Artificial Neural Networks,” Advances
in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 6. Cowan, J.D., Tesauro, G. & Alspector, J.
(eds.) Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Baluja, S. (1993) “Structure and Performance of Fine Grain
Parallelism in Genetic Search,” In S.Forrest (ed.),
Genetic Algorithms: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference
(ICGA93), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Baluja, S. (1993) “The Evolution of Genetic Algorithms: Towards
Massive Parallelism,” in P.E. Utgoff, (ed.), Machine
Learning: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference (ICML93),
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Baluja, S. & Scherer T. (1992) “Local Optimization Using Simulated Annealing,” IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference Proceedings, 1992. IEEE Press. Invited Paper. Liepins, G. & Baluja, S. (1992) “apGA: an Adaptive Parallel Genetic Algorithm,” Computer Science and Operations Research, New Developments in Their Interfaces, Balci, Sharda & Zenios (eds). Pergamon Press, 1992. |
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Other |
Sim, T., Sukthankar,
R., Mullin, D., Baluja, S. (1999) “High Performance Memory-Based Face
Recognition for Visitor Identification, Baluja, S. (1997) “Face Detection with In-Plane Rotation: Early Concepts and Preliminary Results,” JPRC-TR-97-001. JPRC-TR-97-001 Baluja, S. & Davies, S. (1997) “Combining Multiple Optimization Runs with Optimal Dependency Trees,” CMU-CS-97-157. CMU-CS-97-157 Smith, M., Baluja, S., & Rowley, H. (1997) “Integrating Text and Face Detection for Finding Informative Poster Frames,” AAAI-96 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video and Audio Corpora. Sukthankar, R., Hancock, J., Baluja,
S., Pomerleau D. & Thorpe C. (1996) “Adaptive
Intelligent Vehicle Modules for Tactical Driving.” AAAI-96 Workshop on
Intelligent Adaptive Agents. Baluja, S., & Simon, D. (1996) “Evolution-Based Methods for Object Localization: Applications to Computer Assisted Surgery,” CMU-CS-96-186. Baluja, S. (1995) “An Empirical Comparison of Seven Iterative and Evolutionary Function Optimization Heuristics,” CMU-CS-95-193. Available via. anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. CMU-CS-95-193 Rowley, H., Baluja, S., Kanade, T. (1996) “Human Face Detection in Visual Scenes,” ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, 1996. Complete Report: CMU-CS-95-158R. Available via. anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. Baluja, S. & Fahlman, S.E., (1994) “Reducing Network Depth in the Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecture,” CMU-CS-94-209. CMU-CS-94-209 Baluja, S. (1994) “Population-Based Incremental Learning: A Method for Integrating Genetic Search Based Function Optimization and Competitive Learning,” CMU-CS-94-163. Available via anonymous ftp at: reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu. CMU-CS-94-163 Jochem, T. & Baluja, S. (1993) “A Massively Parallel Road Follower,” The Proceedings of the Computer Architectures for Machine Perception Workshop (CAMP), 1993. Pomerleau, D.A., Baluja, S. (1993) “Non-Intrusive Gaze Tracking Using Artificial Neural Networks,” AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Machine Learning in Computer Vision: What, Why and How? |
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